Medals · Hockey For the third time in three Olympic games, the U.S. hockey team rallied to a draw, tying Canada 3-3 last night on Todd Marchant's power-play goal with 28 seconds left. It was the strongest game yet for the United States, which probably needs to win only one of its two remaining preliminary-round games to make the medal round. The Americans play Sweden (2-0-1) tomorrow before meeting Italy (0-3). The United States, which had rallied from two-goal, third-period deficits to tie France and Slovakia in its first two games, is only the second team to record three Olympic ties. Sweden did so in 1988 and won a bronze medal. Canada coach Tom Renney called the tie ''a good win for both teams.'' It certainly was as good as a win for Canada (2-0-1), which clinched a medal-round berth. · Alpine Skiing Tommy Moe celebrated his 24th birthday with a silver medal in the men's super-G. He won the gold in the downhill Sunday and becomes the first U.S. man to win two Olympic Alpine medals in the same Games. Markus Wasmeier won Germany's first men's Alpine skiing medal since 1936 in 1 minute, 32.53 seconds, .08 ahead of Moe. Kjetil Andre Aamodt of Norway was third, 1:32.93. · Figure Skating The past two Olympic champions, Brian Boitano of Sunnyvale, Calif., and Viktor Petrenko of Ukraine, both stumbled during their programs to finish eighth and ninth in the men's technical program. Russia's Alexei Urmanov won the portion, worth one third of the final score. Second was Canadian champion Elvis Stojko, and France's Philippe Candeloro was third going into Saturday night's free skate. American champion Scott Davis of Great Falls, Mont., was fourth. · Cross-country skiing Bjorn Dahlie of Norway, a triple gold-medalist in 1992, won the gold in the men's 10-kilometer classical-style race in 24 minutes, 20.1 seconds. Vladimir Smirnov of Kazakhstan was second in 24:38.3 and Marco Albarello of Italy was third in 24:42.3. Favored Vegard Ulvang of Norway finished seventh. Todd Boonstra of Eagan, Minn., was 41st (26:56.3); John Aalberg of Salt Lake City 45th (27:02.3); Ben Husaby of Eden Prairie, Minn., 52nd (27:11.3); and Luke Bodensteiner of West Bend, Wis., 58th (27.22.3). Lyubov Egorova of Russia won her eighth Olympic medal and fifth gold in the women's 10-kilometer pursuit in 41:38.1 seconds. It was her second gold and third medal overall in Lillehammer. Italians took the silver and bronze medals. Manuela Di Centa was 8.3 seconds behind and Stefania Belmondo was third, 43 seconds back. · Speedskating Defending champion Gunda Niemann fell early in her 3,000-meter race. Svetlana Bazhanova of Russia won in 4 minutes, 17.43 seconds. Niemann finished the race in 5:10.28, almost above her world record of 4:10.80. But she was disqualified because she skated in the wrong lane.
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